Thematic
Aesthetics and ethics
The contrast between ethical and aesthetic judgments, which has provided a good deal of the subject-matter of aesthetics, stems largely from Immanuel Kant’s idiosyncratic view of morality as ...
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Thematic
Art and morality
A complex set of questions is raised by an examination of the relationship between art and morality. First there is a set of empirical considerations about the effect ...
Thematic
Opera, aesthetics of
Opera, which may be defined as a dramatic action set in large part to music, is an inherently unstable art form, more so than any other. It has ...
Biographical
Wagner, Richard (1813–83)
Wagner has no stature as a writer on philosophical subjects independently of his music dramas. But since those dramas themselves deal with deep, often broadly philosophical issues, his ...